חָסַל
to consume
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2628 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, חסל (châçal) means “to consume.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Deuteronomy (100% of all occurrences). Scripture uses it exactly once, at Deuteronomy 28:38. From the same root come חסיל. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2628 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Shall consume 1×
- American Standard Version: Shall consume it 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Will consume it 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Will consume it 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2628 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2628 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2628 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2628 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- (Qal) to consume, finish off, bring to an end
Word origin
[ חָסַל ] vb. finish off, consume — Qal Dt 28:38
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חָסַל
- cmp. preced. wds.) to peel off, to bare. Y. Taan. III, 66ᵈ the locust is called ḥasil שהוא חוֹסֵל וכ׳ because it bares everything.
חֲסַל
- , [to scrape off; (cmp. חָנַךְ) to finish,]
- 1. to cease, have done (cmp. גָּמַר). Targ. II Chr. IV, 11.—חֲסִיל to be exhausted, gone. Targ. Y. II, Gen. XLVII, 15. Targ. Y. II, Deut. XXXI, 24; a. e.—Targ. Y. II, Gen. L, 19 חַסְלַת וכ׳ the evil is paid off (atoned for; cmp. גמל).—Y. R. Hash. II, 58ᵇ top מן דַחֲסַל … מן וכ׳ when R. … had ceased from praying. Gen. R. s. 17, beg. מן דחַסְלִין (not דמן ח׳) when they had finished their studies; a. fr.
- 2. to mature, ripen. Targ. Y. II, Num. XVII, 23 (h. text גמל).
- 3. to wean. Targ. I Sam. I, 24 (h. text גמל); a. fr.
- 1. to peel off, lay bare. Targ. O. Deut. XXVIII, 38.
- 2. to finish. Targ. Y. II, Gen. XLVI, 18.—Y. Bicc. I, 64ᵃ מְחַסֵּל לה finished the sentence (by adding a general rule). Cant. R. beg. זימנין מח׳ לה וכ׳ sometimes he goes through the entire alphabet &c.; (Koh. R. to I, 13 חשל); a. fr.
- to be weaned. Targ. O. Gen. XXI, 8 (ed. Berl. אִתְחַ׳); a. e.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2628, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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